Medium Jumbo Guitar For Sale

Fantastic for all playing styles and all venues, be it in your bedroom, the studio or on stage

This guitar is a medium jumbo acoustic steel-string, completed in early August 2013. The medium jumbo is my biggest guitar shape. As a result of this, it produces a powerful rich bass combined with smooth delicate high-ends and a sweet mid-range for an open modern voice. Due to the curvy lower bout and tight waist, this guitar projects a very loud reverberating and responsive sound. This shape adapts extremely well to both studio and concert environments. I’m really pleased with how this guitar has come together. The action is incredibly low, with no buzzing, and the intonation is spot-on.

It has a cutaway heel, for much easier playability. You can reach the higher frets with much greater ease. The tonewood is triple grade that has been stored and constructed in my humidity controlled workshop.

About the tailpiece and special bridge/saddle system:
You will notice that the guitar is unconventional in the way it is strung up. It is essentially an archtop style bridge and saddle system for an acoustic guitar, meaning it works differently to a traditional steel-string bridge system because the strings excite the top in a totally different way. This produces a different sound character and tonal quality from that of a traditional steel-string guitar. This system works really well with the medium jumbo – typically a fantastic all round guitar – adding much more volume, clarity and balance to the instrument. The solid brass tailpiece was handmade in New England by Erich Solomon, a fantastic archtop guitar specialist. I recommend the Elixir brand of strings for this guitar, as they make them long enough to fit this innovative design.

See the guitar in action here…
Scottish singer-songwriter, Michael Cassidy, generously demonstrated this guitar in the studio for me. There is no pick-up in the guitar so this was recorded using a single studio room mic. The song is played in drop D tuning:

As always, this guitar has been lacquered by Dave Wilson of D Wilson Guitar Tech. To give you an idea of the quality, Dave charges around £400 per instrument. He also lacquers for world renowned luthier, Stefan Sobell.

Comes with:

Hard case

Lifetime warranty to original owner of the guitar

Pick-up can be installed for the price of the pick-up alone (i.e. no installation charge)

Please get in contact should you have any questions. If you are Glasgow-based and would like to try out the guitar, you are more than welcome.